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Coll 29/37 'Bandar Abbas: appointment of Vice Consul; status and jurisdiction; grant of special pension to Mr G A Richardson Indian Medical Department after 30 years' service in the Foreign and Political Department' [‎42r] (86/272)

The record is made up of 1 file (134 folios). It was created in 6 Feb 1930-19 May 1947. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
' no. K 15565/449/234
and address—
not to any person by name
but to—
“The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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27th January, 1944.
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to transmit, to be laid
before the Secretary of State for India, a copy of a telegram from
His Majesty’s Minister at Tehran, in which he reports that the Persian
Ministry for Foreign Affairs have asked for an assurance that the
Persian Government would be permitted to open new Consulates in
'the United Kingdom and in India, should they wish to do so.
2. Mr. Eden does not consider that the reason advanced by the
Persian Government in support of this suggestion, namely that it would
assist the Persian Government to resist demands by the Soviet
Government for the establishment of Soviet Consular posts in Persia,
is in fact a strong one. The policy of the Soviet Government in
this matter (and the ability of the Persian Government to resist it) is
in Mr. Eden ? s opinion, unlikely to be seriously influenced by an
assurance from His Majesty 1 s Government in the United Kingdom on
the lines proposed.
3. The question can therefore best be judged in the light of the
immediate interests of His Majesty 1 s Government in the United Kingdom
and the Government of India. It will be noted that, in Sir Reader
Bullard^ view, to withhold an assurance on the lines that he suggests
would make it more difficult in future for His Majesty’s Government
to obtain the Persian Government’s consent to the opening of new
British consular posts. So far as His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom are concerned, it is doubtful whether the need is likely
to arise to open any further consular posts in the near future. The
Persian Government have already given their agreement to our proposed
consular arrangements for Bandar Abbas and Lingeh; and from Tehran
telegram No. 1152, of the 9th November last, it appears that His
Majesty’s Minister is not in favour of pursuing the proposal to open
a Vice-Consulate at Khwash or at Charbar. Subject to the views of
the Secretary of State for India, therefore, Mr. Eden is doubtful
whether the giving of an assurance on the lines suggested by the
Persian Government would in fact serve any useful purpose.
4. It is, moreover, not easy to determine the exact form that any
such assurance should take. Under the Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1357>
His Majesty’s Government and the Persian Government each enjoys most
favoured nation rights as regards consular representation in the
territories of the other. Thus the Persian Government already have
the right by treaty to open a Consulate anywhere in the United Kingdom
or India where other foreign Consulates are established. Thus to
give satisfaction to the Persian Government, any assurance that might
,now be given would have to grant rights more favourable than those
v/hich the Persian Government already possess. At the same time, His
Majesty’s Government have in practice been able to establish consular
posts in certain localities in Persia where no other loreign
consulates exist. Mr. Eden therefore feels that His Majesty’s
Government would probably stand to lose more than they would stand to
gain by any re-definition of their rights and those of the Persian
Government in the matter of consular representation.
5. Subject to Mr. Amery’s views, Mr. Eden would therefore propose
to put the above considerations to His Majesty’s Minister and enquire
- whether/
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The file mostly concerns appointments at the Bandar Abbas Consulate.

The file contains:

  • appointment of George Alexander Richardson as Vice-Consul with local rank of Consul at Bandar Abbas, in 1930
  • proposed grant of a special retiring pension to George Alexander Richardson
  • Government of India's proposal to revive post of Vice-Consul at Bandar Abbas and to abolish post of Vice-Consul at Kerman, from 1943
  • raising of Bandar Abbas Vice-Consulate to status of a Consulate, in 1943
  • appointment of T E Rogers as Consul of Bandar Abbas, in 1944.

The file is composed of correspondence between the British Legation at Tehran, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Foreign Office, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and the Government of India.

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1 file (134 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 135; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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Coll 29/37 'Bandar Abbas: appointment of Vice Consul; status and jurisdiction; grant of special pension to Mr G A Richardson Indian Medical Department after 30 years' service in the Foreign and Political Department' [‎42r] (86/272), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3598, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100048659245.0x000057> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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